Could Use some help

I am looking for a foam that may not exist but if it does and you know where I can find it please let me know. I would love to get some foam very much like the $$Tree foam board stuff but 1" thick. I have considered laminating 4-5 sheets but that is a great deal of work. If you can help please do.

From the "bead" comment, I think you want extruded polystyrene. I have seen 1/2" and 1" sheets at Lowes but in reports from other people, I believe it may not be in every store. Worth a look. In general, sheet products will be extruded which has much smaller beads and is more structural than expanded PS. You see expanded in molded products like beer coolers.

Laminating isn't all that hard, by the way. Get some spray adhesive. I've used 3M 77 successfully and have seen reports that the cheaper stuff that HD carries also works [edit: memory jogged - it's called Duro and is about 1/3 the price]. Just be careful with it as too much will eat the foam. Don't let it pool up. Slap the layers together and weight them - I use a board on top and workout weights on that. You can start cutting in an hour or two. I think it takes about a day to fully cure. You can hotwire laminated foam.

On the color point - if you don't want to paint it, white is definitely preferable to pink. Heck, blue is preferable to pink.

I have a sample coming from a company I found on line. I am hopeful it will prove to be the ticket. I did laminate 5 sheets of peeled foam board today and it worked. my foam cutter doesn't like it as well as the stuff I have been cutting. The cut was not as clean and it had some trouble tracking the template.

The other sad thing was it really seemed like I would not gain any performance for the increase in effort. I guess my airbrush will get to keep it's job.